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itch.io reveals just how much AI slop is flooding gaming storefronts

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Tildes · EN

The number of game pages doubles on Itch.io as AI games flood the store

The indie video game store that prides itself as an open marketplace is being deluged by game pages, doubling the usual number without a proportional increase in sales.

Game Developer · EN

Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage

The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: "take a guess." As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, "the surge has been almost entirely down to AI-created garbage racing onto the platform as the popularity of vibe-coded theft, copycats and machine-built slop explodes." Back in 2024, when the spectre of AI-'created' video games was still in its infancy, indie platform itch.io decided that the best it could do to combat this growing threat was, like Valve has done with Steam, institute

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